Who Owns Your News Network?

A quick overview of the chains of ownership

(December, 2004)

Most of us watch 'em. Some of us even think they are 'fair and balanced'. But how many of us know that our news networks
are only small parts of large conglomerates? Some of them are waaay down in the ownership tree, in fact.

I popped down to the city library today and looked up the ownership of our major news networks in a fine series of
reference books called "Corporate Affiliations" put out by Lexis-Nexis. Here is what I found for: